How to install Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 drivers on Ubuntu 16.10, 17.04

June 11, 2017 10:04 am

I’ve never been into heavy-duty graphics processing units (GPUs), but I got bit by the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency bug so I had to buy one to build a trial cryptocurrency mining rig. The one I bought is an MSI AERO ITX GeForce GTX 1070 for about $400 USD.

That’s expensive, if you ask me, and from what I’ve read, it’s not even the best for cryptocurrency mining, but it’s the only one I could find.

In any case, using it on Ubuntu means installing the proprietary drivers from a PPA (Personal Package Archives). So that’s what this post is about – how to install Nvidia drivers for a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU on Ubuntu 16.10. It will also work on Ubuntu 17.04. By the way, the development page of the PPA is here.

After that last command has completed, you should be able to find the driver management utility from the launcher. The screenshot below shows the thermal settings.Thermal settings of an MSI GeForce Aero ITX GTX 1070 GPU

And this shows the PowerMixer settings. Pretty powerful GPU, but if it costs $400 USD, it better be powerful.PowerMixer settings of an MSI GeForce Aero ITX GTX 1070 GPU

You can also verify that it’s installed from the command line by using the following command:

Hello, I am planning to get a Zotac Mini GTX 1070 8GB graphics card. Would these instructions apply to Zotac as well or are they specifically for MSI? I m quite new to this, so any help would be great. Thank you!